CMake IntelliSense is a Visual Studio Code extension that support CMake language. It provides features such as syntax highlighting, semantic tokens, document format, and code completion for CMake scripts.
This extension is still under development, you may encounter bugs or missing features. If you have any suggestions or find any bugs, please feel free to open an issue on gitee or github. Your feedback is highly appreciated.
This extension is written in TypeScript, no other runtime dependencies are required. You should have CMake installed.
- syntax highlight
- semantic tokens
- commands, variable, properties... auto complete
- document format
- document link
- go to defination
- publish diagnostics
- code action
Note: This section describes the development environment setup required for modifying/developing this extension. If you just want to use this extension, simply install it without any additional setup.
This project use antlr4 to generate the parser and lexer for CMake language. You need to setup antlr4 command line tool before you start development.
- Install Java JDK/JRE, make sure java command is available in your terminal
- Download antlr-4.13.2-complete.jar
- Add a script named
antlr4in your path, and set the script content as follows:
on Linux/macOS, you can name the script antlr4 and add execute permission to it, then put it in your path. The content of the script is as follows:
java -jar /path/to/antlr-4.13.2-complete.jar "$@"on Windows, you can name the script antlr4.bat and put it in your path. The content of the script is as follows:
java -jar C:\path\to\antlr-4.13.2-complete.jar %*After setting up antlr4 command line tool, you can flow the steps below to start development:
- Clone the repository and open it in Visual Studio Code
- Run
npm installto install dependencies - Run
npm run developto compile the source code - Select
Client + Serverin the debug panel and pressF5to start the extension
- Add more LSP features
- Performance optimization
- Unit/Integeation tests